Nugget

At least we can buy Premium unleaded here in Texas.

mikymu

When I tow my Cup car back from Texas I was amazed that 87 gas cost $2 and change. It was super cheap too through NV, AZ. Once I cross the border price hike up to $4 a gallon ... now that's California love

MM3.9GT3

At ECR and MSR (both tracks are within 90 minutes of Dallas), there are no noise limits.

No state income tax

No annual taxes assessed on cars. Registration fee is $50 to $70 per year.

Very few Granolas

Legal to carry a firearm with a CHL (in case anyone complains about noise)

gmsracing

Makes me want to go and run around the neighborhoods near the track with a catless exhaust. I hate the dB limit at Laguna.

P.J.S.

Even lowly pacific raceways outside of Seattle is inching towards Laguna Seca insanity

No noise restriction a year or two ago and now restricted on Mondays and Tuesdays - no modified exhausts... This is simply the beginning of restriction coming to all days... Apparently meth labs require a noise pollution free environment

Oregon raceway park - no restriction :-)

4porsh

My friend and I have 996 GT3s that pass LS sound every time with the stock exhaust. Think people with 997 GT3s need to do a trick with a plug to a tube inside engine compartment.

NJ-GT

Thankfully, pretty soon we will be racing and running track days on high-performance-electric cars.

No more 100 lbs and 100+ db mufflers, no more running out of fuel, just plug it in between track sessions.

How about a Tesla Roadster S, with Exige Cup wheels/slicks and Exige Cup LSD and track prep?

My stock Fiat produces 103 db at WOT, bone stock, perfectly legal for highway use and to scare neighborhoods, not as loud as the everyday lawnmowers across U.S., but still too loud for Laguna Seca, Lime Rock, even SCCA autocrosses.

mooty

green
tree huggers
recycle
noise reduction
petrol is pollution
what is going on?

mooty

glad you dumped her or she dumped you.
visual resources? only us full of sh*t architects talk like that and i admit that's all bull crap i feed my clients.

resources to enjoy? when you pay over $1MM trying to prove to Crop of fk'gneer that red legged frog and salamanders do not exist on your site.... you dont want anyone to enjoy anything.

rad is right. i need tesla and pretend to be green.

ADias

You mean... time between track sessions is a minimum of 5 hours?

carrering

i wonder how long a tesla roadster would go at full tilt at Laguna Seca? 8 laps? then rest of day recharging to get probably 4 laps before the track closes?

wouldn't exhaust pipes pointed down work ok for sound police roaming on left side of track?

TRAKCAR

Izzone drove a Tesla $100k. It be OK at say $40K, but did not like how it drove.

I'm test driving the Fisker Karma next week just to see the styling, but is is similar technlogy as Chevy Volt, just faster.. It would be luxury not to have to gas up at the pump. But I expect a $100K car that does what gasoline counterparts do for half the price, although this one might make it look way cool. I plan to deplete battery ASAP to show wifey this is not the way to go, she is starting to speak some tree hugging language lately, maybe a pushback for making her gas up 2x a week with a 12MPG coupe.

Since I have Natural Gas at home, I would like a car my wife can just fuel up on natural gas a home, Honda had these "place at home Natural Gas filler kits" supplied with a Civic, but who wants a Civic these days and they did not offer it in Florida, only in tree huggin' California I think. Probably half the gasoline cars in countries like Holland and UK run on Natural Gas; I know my dad's Caddilac SRX does. You'd never know it. Clean and cheap. I wonder why they hide this over here, except for some goverment buses, etc.

Where I live almost everyday someone is getting their lawn done any given day of the week and I agree that is the worst form of sound pollution. Crazy that those things don't come with some normal mufflers, they produce sucha bad quality of engine sound. I see plenty of whisper quiet or nice sounding application of lawnmover style engines...

Ferdie

I am afraid there is some kind of noise regulation at the Nürburgring as well nowadays but not to the same extent. The residents know about the importance of the Ring which once was established to raise the economy there.

Same thing happens at my hometown, where the airport and airship base are located, established in the 1920ies. Several residents bought houses in the past few decades and started to take proceedings against the noise. So far they managed to stay open but for how long? Not only in the US...

Laura

Well there is a big crowd of full track cars (Porsche Owners Club) heading to Laguna Seca for this weekend, let's see what happens. We changed the exhausts on all of our cars, so it will be interesting to see the results. Last year we were all OK, but....

mooty

damn fat finger reter. how many times did you post this